Name reservation is the very first CAMIS step — and one of the easiest to get wrong if you treat it as a formality rather than a legal filing.
Uniqueness Check
Your proposed name must not be identical or deceptively similar to any existing registered company, and it shouldn't infringe on existing trademarks. OCR reviews this manually, so obviously derivative names (a small variation on a known brand) get flagged.
Nepali Unicode Requirement
Since recent CAMIS updates, company names must be submitted in both English and correctly rendered Nepali Unicode. Typing the Nepali name using a transliteration tool that produces malformed characters is a common, avoidable rejection cause.
The 35-Day Window
Once approved, your name reservation is valid for 35 days. If your MOA, AOA, and supporting documents aren't ready within that window, the reservation lapses and you must reapply — occasionally to find someone else has since taken the name.
Practical Tip
Reserve your name only once your documents are genuinely close to final, not at the very start of your planning process, to avoid wasting the reservation window.
Company Sathi handles name reservation as part of full-service registration, so timing and Unicode formatting are never a guessing game.
